Zhurnal is a popular newspaper in Albania, published from and headquartered in Albania. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze Zhurnal’s media bias and Zhurnal’s factual reporting on the basis of its coverage, language used, presidential endorsements, media reports, research and blind surveys. We have also commented on the left or right biasedness of the Zhurnal along with its factual accuracy.
Media Bias Analysis Summary
After thorough research, we will conclude whether the Zhurnalis Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For Zhurnal, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on Zhurnal’s media bias. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media bias meter out of all the seven possible meters shown here.
Factual Reporting Summary
For commenting on the factual accuracy of the Zhurnal, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if Zhurnal has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of Zhurnal. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.
A. Zhurnal Media Bias Analysis
Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for Zhurnal. We will observe, analyse and comment on the Zhurnal language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of Zhurnal’s editors, etc. to support our inference.
1. Zhurnal Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines
We will rummage through previous headlines of Zhurnal to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of Zhurnal towards any side of the spectrum.
2. Zhurnal Endorsement of President
Endorsement of presidential candidates in elections comments strongly about a newspaper’s affiliation towards left or right. We will look out for candidates that Zhurnal has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support Zhurnal’s political bias.
3. Political leader’s Criticism of Zhurnal
A political leader’s frequent criticism of Zhurnal will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised Zhurnal in the past to support our arguments.
4. Allegations on Zhurnal
Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against Zhurnal by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if Zhurnal is biased towards left, right or center.
5. Media Bias Articles from Research Papers, Institutions, etc.
Several reputed fact checking and media bias analytics organizations conduct thorough surveys and research to write about Zhurnal media bias. To substantiate our claims about Zhurnal’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.
6. Audience of Zhurnal
The audience of Zhurnal also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about Zhurnal’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.
7. Zhurnal’s controversial statements and tweets
Several newspapers make controversial statements or tweets on social media that reflect their affinity towards any ideology. We will flip through Zhurnal social media accounts to look for clues that suggests Zhurnal media bias.
8. Popular editors of Zhurnal
Any popular person or editor associated with the Zhurnal will also speak a lot about Zhurnal’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of Zhurnal that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.
9. Zhurnal CEO’s political views
In this section, we will look if Zhurnal CEO supports or sponsors any political party directly or indirectly. We will look for his tweets, statements, opinion pieces, and controversies that will take us towards Zhurnal’s media bias.
B. Zhurnal Factual Reporting Analysis
After Zhurnal media bias, we will write about Zhurnal’s factual reporting, to check whether Zhurnal is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing Zhurnal’s factual accuracies and will comment if Zhurnal has ever published any false or misleading reports.
1. Zhurnal’s misleading or false news articles
We will look for Zhurnal’s previous history if it has ever intentionally or unintentionally published any fake news, false or misleading reports to influence audience. We will also write about false claims made by Zhurnal in its Op-Ed or news section.
2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of Zhurnal
Several fact-checking organizations including Politico, FactCheck, Snopes, Poynter, etc. conduct frequent fact-check on news articles published by newspapers. We will list down fact-checks that mentioned Zhurnal to suggest if Zhurnal has published false stories in the past or not.
3. Sources of Zhurnal
Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by Zhurnal in their news stories to find out if Zhurnal is factually reliable or not.
C. Zhurnal Reliability Ratings by Fact-Checking Organizations
Several organizations across the globe independently conduct thorough research and studies on the pattern of news coverage by mainstream media. These websites study the articles published by the news media with the help of professionals and rate them on the basis of bias and reliability. Under this section, we will find out what other fact-checking organizations and media monitors have to say about Zhurnal.
D. History of Zhurnal
Zhurnal is based out of Albania and primarily published from Albania . In this section, we will comment about the history of Zhurnal including Zhurnal founder, Zhurnal publisher, Zhurnal circulation and Zhurnal headquarters.
E. Zhurnal Funding & Ownership
Under this section, mediabuzz will write about Zhurnal’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how Zhurnal’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.
F. Readers of Zhurnal
Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers Zhurnal enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of Zhurnal audience.
G. Zhurnal Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion
After a thorough analysis of Zhurnal on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if Zhurnal is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether Zhurnal is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.